Improvement in shirt-bosom protectors



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS J. RICHARDS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRT-BOSOM PROTECTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,573, dated February 17, 1874; application filed January 28, 1874.

Protectors; and I do hereby declare the follow ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part ot' this specication, in which- Figure l represents a front view of the stretcher and protector, and Fig. 2 represents a vertleal section through the same.

My 1nvention relates to a shirt-bosom stretcher and protector as anew article of manufacture,

it being composed of paper-board and fasten ed to the shirt at the top and bottom to keep it in proper position. p

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe t-he same with reference to the drawings.

The stretcher and protector' A is made of paper or pasteboarll, of sufficient thickness or strength to maintainits iiat or uncreased condition, and should conform to the shape and form of a shirt-bosom. For summer use I prefer to make the stretcher of perforated paper* board, as being cooler. For winter use it may be of plain board imperforate. The top of the stretcher is fastened to the collar or neck band of the shirt by a stud or button, et, and the lower end of it is similarly fastened, as at b, to the lower part of the shirt-bosom. For the lower fastening, an eyeletdlole may be worked in the lower part of the shirt=bcsom, through which the shank of a screw-stud is passed, and a slot, c, is formed in the stretcher so as to adapt it to the position of the eyelet and screwstud. The shank of the screw-stud after passing through the eyelet in the shirt-bosom, then passes through said slot, and the nut-headrof the screw-stud is screwed onto the shank. To give greater strength to the paper-board wh ere the head of the screw-stud rests, a washer, e, of paper -board or other substance may be placed.

Common buttons, as fastenings for the stretcher, would not answer so well as the screw-studs, as the paper-board is too rigid to receive the common button.

This stretcher is quite cheap, so much so that when soiled or creased it maybe thrown away and a fresh 011e applied.

What I claim as a new article of manufac ture is A shirt-bosom stretcher and protector made solely of paper-board and united to theneckband by a stud, as at a., and fastened at the lower portion ot' the shirt-bosom by the screwstud b adjustable in the slot c, as and for the purpose described and set forth.

. THos. J. RICHARDS.

Witnesses A. B. SToUGHToN,

EDMUND MAssoN. 

